Privacy

This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms and Conditions of use provided in our Legal Notice

RuralNI is committed to protecting the privacy of Users. The information we collect from you is only that required by us in order to provide you with the information you have requested. Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we do not supply your Personal Information to any other person unless you have expressly authorised us to do so.

By registering to use the Services and by using the RuralNI site generally you will be deemed to consent to our use of your Personal Information in the ways indicated.

Data Protection and Freedom of Information

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development sponsor this site, it takes data protection and freedom of information issues seriously. It takes care to ensure that any personal information supplied to it is dealt with in a way which complies with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998. This means that any personal information you supply will be processed principally for the purpose for which it has been provided. However, the Department may also use it for other legitimate purposes in line with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information legislation. These include:

Allow us to send messages to you when managing enquires online;
Allow us to contact you for user service, if necessary;
Customise the content of our site to meet your specific needs;
Make product improvements to RuralNI;
Keep you informed of new features available from RuralNI.
Administration of the Common Agricultural Policy and other aid schemes;
The production and safety of food;
Management of land and other environmental controls;
Animal health and welfare;
Occupational health and welfare;
Compilation of statistics;
Disclosure to other organisations when required to do so; and
Disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 where such disclosure is in the public interest.

General information

In general, we gather data about all of our Users collectively, such as what areas and services Users visit most frequently.

Feedback

Please submit any feedback to RuralNI, this is found via the 'Contact us' section. Feedback is used primarily for internal purposes to aid us in improving the site. Any feedback submitted becomes the property of the RuralNI. We may use this feedback, such as success stories, for marketing purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on the site. We will seek your written or email approval should we want to use your personal success story for marketing purposes.

Cookies

When you enter the RuralNI site your computer will be automatically issued with a cookie, in order to collect non-personal user information required for system administration of the website.
Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in a text file in the cookie directory of your hard drive, and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies will not be used to collect any personal information about you and will not be used to identify an individual user.
The information that is supplied by cookies can help us better understand your needs in order to provide you with a better service and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies. If you do not know how to do this, you should visit the website of your browser manufacturer.

Log files

RuralNI captures industry standard information solely for the purposes of analysis. Information contained in log files is intended for internal use only and will not be disclosed to third parties. The aggregate logged information is not linked to any personally identifiable information.

Hosting

This site is hosted by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland.

Enquires

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, your dealings with the RuralNI website, you can contact us by email via the 'Contact us' section on our site, or at the following address:

RuralNI
Greenmount Campus
22 Greenmount Road,
Antrim
BT41 4PU

Telephone 028 9442 6699

Email info@ruralni.gov.uk